Dr Alessio Fracasso
- Lecturer (Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging)
Research interests
Publications
2020
Harvey, B. M., Dumoulin, S. O., Fracasso, A. and Paul, J. M. (2020) A network of topographic maps in human association cortex hierarchically transforms visual timing-selective responses. Current Biology, 30(8), 1424-1434.e6. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.090) (PMID:32142704) (PMCID:PMC7181178)
Fabius, J. H., Nijboer, T. C.W., Fracasso, A. and Van der Stigchel, S. (2020) Intra-saccadic displacement sensitivity after a lesion to the posterior parietal cortex. Cortex, 127, pp. 108-119. (doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.01.027) (PMID:32172025) (PMCID:PMC7254053)
2019
Zikidi, K., Gajwani, R., Gross, J. , Gumley, A. I. , Lawrie, S. M., Schwannauer, M., Schultze-Lutter, F., Fracasso, A. and Uhlhaas, P. J. (2019) Grey-matter abnormalities in clinical high-risk participants for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, (doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2019.08.034) (PMID:31740178) (In Press)
Ruotolo, A., Ruggiero, F., Raemaekers, G., Iachini, M., van der Ham, T., Fracasso, A. and Postma, A. (2019) Neural correlates of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference combined with metric and non-metric spatial relations. Neuroscience, 409, pp. 235-252. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.04.021) (PMID:31004694)
Ahmadi, K., Fracasso, A. , van Dijk, J. A., Kruijt, C., van Genderen, M., Dumoulin, S. O. and Hoffmann, M. B. (2019) Altered organization of the visual cortex in FHONDA syndrome. NeuroImage, 190, pp. 224-231. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.053) (PMID:29524626)
Fabius, J. H., Fracasso, A. , Nijboer, T. C.W. and Van der Stigchel, S. (2019) Time course of spatiotopic updating across saccades. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(6), pp. 2027-2032. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812210116) (PMID:30655348) (PMCID:PMC6369820)
2018
Klein, B. P., Fracasso, A. , van Dijk, J. A., Paffen, C. L.E., Te Pas, S. F. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2018) Cortical depth dependent population receptive field attraction by spatial attention in human V1. NeuroImage, 176, pp. 301-312. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.055) (PMID:29709626)
van der Zwaag, W., Buur, P. F., Fracasso, A. , van Doesum, T., Uludağ, K., Versluis, M. J. and Marques, J. P. (2018) Distortion-matched T1 maps and unbiased T1-weighted images as anatomical reference for high-resolution fMRI. NeuroImage, 176, pp. 41-55. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.026) (PMID:29665420)
Naber, M., Roelofzen, C., Fracasso, A. , Bergsma, D. P., van Genderen, M., Porro, G. L. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2018) Gaze-contingent flicker pupil perimetry detects scotomas in patients with cerebral visual impairments or glaucoma. Frontiers in Neurology, 9, 558. (doi: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00558) (PMID:30042727) (PMCID:PMC6048245)
Ferguson, B., Petridou, N., Fracasso, A. , van Den Heuvel, M.P., Brouwer, R.M., Hulshoff Pol, H.E., Kahn, R.S. and Mandl, R.C.W. (2018) Detailed T1-weighted profiles from the human cortex measured in vivo at 3 Tesla MRI. Neuroinformatics, 16(2), pp. 181-196. (doi: 10.1007/s12021-018-9356-2) (PMID:29352389) (PMCID:PMC5984962)
Hendriks, A.D., Fracasso, A. , Arteaga de Castro, C.S., Gosselink, M.W.J.M., Luijten, P.R., Petridou, N. and Klomp, D.W.J. (2018) Maximizing sensitivity for fast GABA edited spectroscopy in the visual cortex at 7 T. NMR in Biomedicine, 31(4), e3890. (doi: 10.1002/nbm.3890) (PMID:29442388) (PMCID:PMC5887933)
Dumoulin, S.O., Fracasso, A. , van der Zwaag, W., Siero, J.C.W. and Petridou, N. (2018) Ultra-high field MRI: advancing systems neuroscience towards mesoscopic human brain function. NeuroImage, 168, pp. 345-357. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.028) (PMID:28093360)
Fracasso, A. , Luijten, P.R., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2018) Laminar imaging of positive and negative BOLD in human visual cortex at 7 T. NeuroImage, 164, pp. 100-111. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.038) (PMID:28213112)
2017
Buonocore, A., Fracasso, A. and Melcher, D. (2017) Pre-saccadic perception: separate time courses for enhancement and spatial pooling at the saccade target. PLoS ONE, 12(6), e0178902. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178902) (PMID:28614367) (PMCID:PMC5470679)
Dumoulin, S.O., Harvey, B.M., Fracasso, A. , Zuiderbaan, W., Luijten, P.R., Wandell, B.A. and Petridou, N. (2017) In vivo evidence of functional and anatomical stripe-based subdivisions in human V2 and V3. Scientific Reports, 7, 733. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00634-6) (PMID:28389654) (PMCID:PMC5428808)
2016
Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2016) Systematic variation of population receptive field properties across cortical depth in human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 139, pp. 427-438. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.048) (PMID:27374728)
Fabius, J.H., Fracasso, A. and Van Der Stigchel, S. (2016) Spatiotopic updating facilitates perception immediately after saccades. Scientific Reports, 6, 34488. (doi: 10.1038/srep34488) (PMID:27686998) (PMCID:PMC5043283)
Fracasso, A. , van Veluw, S.J., Visser, F., Luijten, P.R., Spliet, W., Zwanenburg, J.J.M., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2016) Myelin contrast across lamina at 7T, ex-vivo and in-vivo dataset. Data In Brief, 8, pp. 990-1003. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.06.058) (PMID:27508254) (PMCID:PMC4961349)
Fracasso, A. and Melcher, D. (2016) Saccades influence the visibility of targets in rapid stimulus sequences: the roles of mislocalization, retinal distance and remapping. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 10, 58. (doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2016.00058) (PMID:27445718) (PMCID:PMC4924485)
Fracasso, A. , Van Veluw, S.J., Visser, F., Luijten, P.R., Spliet, W., Zwanenburg, J.J.M., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2016) Lines of Baillarger in vivo and ex vivo: myelin contrast across lamina at 7 T MRI and histology. NeuroImage, 133, pp. 163-175. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.072) (PMID:26947519)
Fracasso, A. , Koenraads, Y., Porro, G.L. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2016) Bilateral population receptive fields in congenital hemihydranencephaly. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 36(3), pp. 324-334. (doi: 10.1111/opo.12294) (PMID:27112226)
2015
Harvey, B.M., Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2015) Topographic representations of object size and relationships with numerosity reveal generalized quantity processing in human parietal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(44), pp. 13525-13530. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1515414112) (PMID:26483452) (PMCID:PMC4640722)
Fracasso, A. , Kaunitz, L. and Melcher, D. (2015) Saccade kinematics modulate perisaccadic perception. Journal of Vision, 15(3), 4. (doi: 10.1167/15.3.4) (PMID:25761349)
van Veluw, S.J., Fracasso, A. , Visser, F., Spliet, W.G.M., Luijten, P.R., Biessels, G.J. and Zwanenburg, J.J.M. (2015) FLAIR images at 7 Tesla MRI highlight the ependyma and the outer layers of the cerebral cortex. NeuroImage, 104, pp. 100-109. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.011) (PMID:25315783)
2013
Fracasso, A. , Targher, S., Zampini, M. and Melcher, D. (2013) Fooling the eyes: the influence of a sound-induced visual motion illusion on eye movements. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e62131. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062131) (PMID:23637981) (PMCID:PMC3637444)
Kaunitz, L., Fracasso, A. , Lingnau, A. and Melcher, D. (2013) Non-conscious processing of motion coherence can boost conscious access. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e60787. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060787) (PMID:23593311) (PMCID:PMC3622026)
2012
Melcher, D. and Fracasso, A. (2012) Remapping of the line motion illusion across eye movements. Experimental Brain Research, 218(4), pp. 503-514. (doi: 10.1007/s00221-012-3043-6) (PMID:22392445)
2010
Fracasso, A. , Caramazza, A. and Melcher, D. (2010) Continuous perception of motion and shape across saccadic eye movements. Journal of Vision, 10(13), 14. (doi: 10.1167/10.13.14) (PMID:21106679)
Articles
Harvey, B. M., Dumoulin, S. O., Fracasso, A. and Paul, J. M. (2020) A network of topographic maps in human association cortex hierarchically transforms visual timing-selective responses. Current Biology, 30(8), 1424-1434.e6. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.090) (PMID:32142704) (PMCID:PMC7181178)
Fabius, J. H., Nijboer, T. C.W., Fracasso, A. and Van der Stigchel, S. (2020) Intra-saccadic displacement sensitivity after a lesion to the posterior parietal cortex. Cortex, 127, pp. 108-119. (doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.01.027) (PMID:32172025) (PMCID:PMC7254053)
Zikidi, K., Gajwani, R., Gross, J. , Gumley, A. I. , Lawrie, S. M., Schwannauer, M., Schultze-Lutter, F., Fracasso, A. and Uhlhaas, P. J. (2019) Grey-matter abnormalities in clinical high-risk participants for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, (doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2019.08.034) (PMID:31740178) (In Press)
Ruotolo, A., Ruggiero, F., Raemaekers, G., Iachini, M., van der Ham, T., Fracasso, A. and Postma, A. (2019) Neural correlates of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference combined with metric and non-metric spatial relations. Neuroscience, 409, pp. 235-252. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.04.021) (PMID:31004694)
Ahmadi, K., Fracasso, A. , van Dijk, J. A., Kruijt, C., van Genderen, M., Dumoulin, S. O. and Hoffmann, M. B. (2019) Altered organization of the visual cortex in FHONDA syndrome. NeuroImage, 190, pp. 224-231. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.053) (PMID:29524626)
Fabius, J. H., Fracasso, A. , Nijboer, T. C.W. and Van der Stigchel, S. (2019) Time course of spatiotopic updating across saccades. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(6), pp. 2027-2032. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812210116) (PMID:30655348) (PMCID:PMC6369820)
Klein, B. P., Fracasso, A. , van Dijk, J. A., Paffen, C. L.E., Te Pas, S. F. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2018) Cortical depth dependent population receptive field attraction by spatial attention in human V1. NeuroImage, 176, pp. 301-312. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.055) (PMID:29709626)
van der Zwaag, W., Buur, P. F., Fracasso, A. , van Doesum, T., Uludağ, K., Versluis, M. J. and Marques, J. P. (2018) Distortion-matched T1 maps and unbiased T1-weighted images as anatomical reference for high-resolution fMRI. NeuroImage, 176, pp. 41-55. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.026) (PMID:29665420)
Naber, M., Roelofzen, C., Fracasso, A. , Bergsma, D. P., van Genderen, M., Porro, G. L. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2018) Gaze-contingent flicker pupil perimetry detects scotomas in patients with cerebral visual impairments or glaucoma. Frontiers in Neurology, 9, 558. (doi: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00558) (PMID:30042727) (PMCID:PMC6048245)
Ferguson, B., Petridou, N., Fracasso, A. , van Den Heuvel, M.P., Brouwer, R.M., Hulshoff Pol, H.E., Kahn, R.S. and Mandl, R.C.W. (2018) Detailed T1-weighted profiles from the human cortex measured in vivo at 3 Tesla MRI. Neuroinformatics, 16(2), pp. 181-196. (doi: 10.1007/s12021-018-9356-2) (PMID:29352389) (PMCID:PMC5984962)
Hendriks, A.D., Fracasso, A. , Arteaga de Castro, C.S., Gosselink, M.W.J.M., Luijten, P.R., Petridou, N. and Klomp, D.W.J. (2018) Maximizing sensitivity for fast GABA edited spectroscopy in the visual cortex at 7 T. NMR in Biomedicine, 31(4), e3890. (doi: 10.1002/nbm.3890) (PMID:29442388) (PMCID:PMC5887933)
Dumoulin, S.O., Fracasso, A. , van der Zwaag, W., Siero, J.C.W. and Petridou, N. (2018) Ultra-high field MRI: advancing systems neuroscience towards mesoscopic human brain function. NeuroImage, 168, pp. 345-357. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.028) (PMID:28093360)
Fracasso, A. , Luijten, P.R., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2018) Laminar imaging of positive and negative BOLD in human visual cortex at 7 T. NeuroImage, 164, pp. 100-111. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.038) (PMID:28213112)
Buonocore, A., Fracasso, A. and Melcher, D. (2017) Pre-saccadic perception: separate time courses for enhancement and spatial pooling at the saccade target. PLoS ONE, 12(6), e0178902. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178902) (PMID:28614367) (PMCID:PMC5470679)
Dumoulin, S.O., Harvey, B.M., Fracasso, A. , Zuiderbaan, W., Luijten, P.R., Wandell, B.A. and Petridou, N. (2017) In vivo evidence of functional and anatomical stripe-based subdivisions in human V2 and V3. Scientific Reports, 7, 733. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00634-6) (PMID:28389654) (PMCID:PMC5428808)
Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2016) Systematic variation of population receptive field properties across cortical depth in human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 139, pp. 427-438. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.048) (PMID:27374728)
Fabius, J.H., Fracasso, A. and Van Der Stigchel, S. (2016) Spatiotopic updating facilitates perception immediately after saccades. Scientific Reports, 6, 34488. (doi: 10.1038/srep34488) (PMID:27686998) (PMCID:PMC5043283)
Fracasso, A. , van Veluw, S.J., Visser, F., Luijten, P.R., Spliet, W., Zwanenburg, J.J.M., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2016) Myelin contrast across lamina at 7T, ex-vivo and in-vivo dataset. Data In Brief, 8, pp. 990-1003. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.06.058) (PMID:27508254) (PMCID:PMC4961349)
Fracasso, A. and Melcher, D. (2016) Saccades influence the visibility of targets in rapid stimulus sequences: the roles of mislocalization, retinal distance and remapping. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 10, 58. (doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2016.00058) (PMID:27445718) (PMCID:PMC4924485)
Fracasso, A. , Van Veluw, S.J., Visser, F., Luijten, P.R., Spliet, W., Zwanenburg, J.J.M., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2016) Lines of Baillarger in vivo and ex vivo: myelin contrast across lamina at 7 T MRI and histology. NeuroImage, 133, pp. 163-175. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.072) (PMID:26947519)
Fracasso, A. , Koenraads, Y., Porro, G.L. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2016) Bilateral population receptive fields in congenital hemihydranencephaly. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 36(3), pp. 324-334. (doi: 10.1111/opo.12294) (PMID:27112226)
Harvey, B.M., Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2015) Topographic representations of object size and relationships with numerosity reveal generalized quantity processing in human parietal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(44), pp. 13525-13530. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1515414112) (PMID:26483452) (PMCID:PMC4640722)
Fracasso, A. , Kaunitz, L. and Melcher, D. (2015) Saccade kinematics modulate perisaccadic perception. Journal of Vision, 15(3), 4. (doi: 10.1167/15.3.4) (PMID:25761349)
van Veluw, S.J., Fracasso, A. , Visser, F., Spliet, W.G.M., Luijten, P.R., Biessels, G.J. and Zwanenburg, J.J.M. (2015) FLAIR images at 7 Tesla MRI highlight the ependyma and the outer layers of the cerebral cortex. NeuroImage, 104, pp. 100-109. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.011) (PMID:25315783)
Fracasso, A. , Targher, S., Zampini, M. and Melcher, D. (2013) Fooling the eyes: the influence of a sound-induced visual motion illusion on eye movements. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e62131. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062131) (PMID:23637981) (PMCID:PMC3637444)
Kaunitz, L., Fracasso, A. , Lingnau, A. and Melcher, D. (2013) Non-conscious processing of motion coherence can boost conscious access. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e60787. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060787) (PMID:23593311) (PMCID:PMC3622026)
Melcher, D. and Fracasso, A. (2012) Remapping of the line motion illusion across eye movements. Experimental Brain Research, 218(4), pp. 503-514. (doi: 10.1007/s00221-012-3043-6) (PMID:22392445)
Fracasso, A. , Caramazza, A. and Melcher, D. (2010) Continuous perception of motion and shape across saccadic eye movements. Journal of Vision, 10(13), 14. (doi: 10.1167/10.13.14) (PMID:21106679)
Grants
Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.
- Stable perception of external stimuli over time: oculo-motor and visual processing mechanisms
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
2019 - 2022
Supervision
Supervised Postgraduate Students
- Bianca Bianciardi (Postgraduate)
- Gina Brunner (Postgraduate)
- Gustavo Golub (Visiting Postgraduate)
- Kate Haining (Postgraduate)
- Yulia Lazarova (Postgraduate)
- Katarina Moravkova (Postgraduate)
Research Assistants
- Jasper Fabius (Research Associate)
- Gregory Kokkinidis (Research Assistant)
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